A TSA agent, you know… those folks who pat you down at the airport… was arrested for distributing explicit pictures off children on his Facebook account. This follows on the heels of another airport screener who felt it necessary to pat-down a six-year-old girl. What’s happening here??
Here’s what is being reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer:
A passenger screener at Philadelphia International Airport is facing charges that he distributed more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook, records show.
Federal agents also allege that Transportation Safety Administration Officer Thomas Gordon Jr. of Philadelphia, who routinely searched airline passengers, uploaded explicit pictures of young girls to an Internet site on which he also posted a photograph of himself in his TSA uniform.
The story also reminds us of the backlash the TSA is taking from parents who say their six-year-old daughter was “groped” by the airport screener. According to the news report, the TSA says the pat-down was “proper.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba030UmbkCo
Things are getting more than creepy at the TSA. Shouldn’t they be screening the screeners?
First get him a shave. Then throw away the key. You know he’s not the only one at the TSA.
The TSA has already been found to be lax in their so called security check on applicants they hire. I brought this earlier this morning in another post. The TSA placed at the airport for one reason and only reason and that was to make more union members. As I said before all airports need to fire the TSA and contract out to privet firms who will do a better job of vetting their employee’s. The other plus is they show more respect to the people traveling. San Francisco doesn’t use the TSA and people are treated with more respect.
I know some is going to ask why I think that a privet company would do a better job at screening their employees. One reason :”Lawsuit” they don’t want to be sued over something like that. The Federal Government on the other hand does not care if they are sued. The money comes out of the taxpayers pocket not theirs.
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW! ! ! !
you comment all the time, some good some bad, but you really need to learn how to spell. It is private, not privet.
mrtaichi, I’m a product of California schools. What can I say? I got A’s and B’s in all my classes. I had 3.6 grade average in college.
That’s why I have a problem with grading on a curve. You don’t really learn as much as your grade would imply. The other thing is I don’t always have time to review my post and make corrections.
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW! ! ! ! !
You can look at this guy and see he is a total pig. we demand so little of each other in the world today; why should it surprise anyone that so many government employees at all levels tunr out to be a bunch of knuckle dragging mongrel slobs. America has done this to ourselves and even worse we have allowed a useless, lying idiot like obama to be elected to the presidency.
Get used to being referred to as the formerly greatest nation in history because that is now past. Slobs breed slobs and slovenliness. America has gotten what America deserves. Things turned for the worse when Bill Clinton the philandering male ***** wasn’t immediately thrown out of the Whitehouse and into the gutter where he belongs and now we have this fool of a lost dog obama and one hell of a lot of you idiots had to vote for him to put him in office.
America deserves what you get for all of this!
When you get a job as a TSA screener, you have been automatically given full permission to feel and grope anyone, man, woman or child, that has the misfortune, to want to board an airplane.
With little or no background checks or vetting of TSA employees, what a perfect place for pedophiles, molesters, and sex deviates to get a job. They can get their jollies, feeling up little children, old ladies and anybody they want and it’s all perfectly legal.
Are we having fun yet?
Just got home (near Portland, Oregon) from a visit to Atlanta to see my 94 year old mother. The flights were non-stop in both directions and in neither terminal was I expected to do anything more than walk through the magnetometer. On neither end did I see anyone physically touched, though I did see one man being “wanded”.
In Atlanta (one of the largest hubs in the country) the only people who had to be subjected to the new “nudie” scanners did so because of the line they chose to be in when they entered the “cattle squeeze chutes” at the beginning of the obstacle course to the terminal. Should I say that I am an old lady (nearly 75) and no one tried to grope me.
While I am sure there are creeps doing this work……..where can you find a job where there are none, I saw none of them.
Dingbat36, I flew in February. I checked in at Ontario international Airport and proceeded to the line to go thew the security check point. I got in line and a uniformed TSA agent came over and he took me aside checked my boarding pass and ID I then was ushered to another line where I first went through the metal detector and then was patted down. I was selected the same way when I was ready to returned from Alabama.
I really don’t like to be touched that way and if I could have gotten to Alabama any other way in time I would have.
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW! ! ! !
Please don’t ask the stupid question of what is happening here. The TSA and the Homeland Security are jokes. They couldn’t get a terrorist if he/she was handed to them. It is another government welfare program that funnels cash into the Democratic Party through the union dues.
The worst part about it all is that the American public allows it. Imagine about a hundred years ago would this be tolerated? The criminals at TSA would more than likely be tarred anf feathered. America has become a nation of sheep.
I agree with most of what you say. But, don’t blame the people! That kind of negativism is self defeating and not reflective of what’s going on. We the people are more aware and are going to make the changes necessary to get rid of this regime and restore conservative values, a little or a lot at a time.
dingbat36,
You may not have seen the groping and feeling at the time you were in Atlanta, but there are numerous (very numerous) cell phone videos and camera videos documenting TSA agents groping and touching people of all ages and persuasions.
Yes, there are bad people in all occupations, but, this occupation gives the employee carte blanche, when it comes to contact frisking. The TSA is supposed to see to it, that your life is protected by finding would be terrorists, before they board a plane. You would think, that with such an important duty, the feds would screen and vette these people more carefully, but apparently they don’t.
Slugs like this child pornographer, are allowed to work apparently without even a cursory background check. Facebook would be the FIRST place I would look when screening an applicant. This slug was brazen enough to post his photo in uniform, on Facebook, along with his child porn. This tells me that he had no fear of being caught.
My questions are: How many more of these creeps are out there in screening lines? and when will the American public wake up and say ENOUGH?
The public needs to say enough now ! I truly believe this TSA fiasco is set up to see just how much the American people will tolerate… One day we will find the magnetometers are more dangerous than the American people have been told. I can’t imagine allowing TSA to pat my child down…. I’d find another way home… I’m not kidding.
I will not fly any more because of this groping. My wife attends a needlepoint class run by a very nice older lady. She told my wife that the last time she flew, the TSA screener stuck her finger up her rectum.
If anybody tried that with me, that finger would instantly become a usless twisted blob.
You are right in asking just how much the American public will tolerate, before they are fed up.